How to Catch a Shadow

How do you catch a shadow? Actually chasing a shadow is pretty futile. You spend tremendous amounts of energy and in the end you have nothing of real substance that quickly seeps through your hands like water and your left to chase after it again.

The silliness of it is easy to see when I put it that way, but still people chase shadows all the time. Every time some one chases after a feeling they chase shadows. You want to feel like you used to feel about a person, God, your job...but instead you feel stale, stagnate, dry, unfulfilled...so what do you do? Do you change jobs, churches, boy/girl friends? Many do. Decisions like that, if based on a feeling that is or is not there, are seldom a good decision.

So how DO you catch a shadow? How do you get that feeling back? You chase after the substance of the shadow, not the shadow itself. Shadows move, bend, & fade but the substance of the shadow remains constant. So when you find what makes the shadow you sit & wait and in time the shadow will return. In the mean time we learn that it isn’t the shadow we wanted at all. Everything we wanted is in the substance.

Have you lost that "lovin" feeling? Pursue God (reading, praying, learning & obeying) the nearer you draw yourself into Him, no matter how you feel, the stronger your relationship becomes and while you may have seasons of that thrilling love feeling, when it fades there is still a deep, sure, confident love that never fades because it is the substance rather than the shadow.